Clemente & Cavero, an Italian manufacturer,
produced these ready-made diecast models in the early 1960s. Most of the models are 1/90 but there is
also one model, the FBW Swiss postbus that is exactly 1/87.

In the mid 1960s, these 1/90 scale models
appeared on the American market. Some of the models originate from the
Italian Mercury moulds, but others were never available from the Italian
Mercury. The models were also sold under the Lit'l Toys brandname and after the
Lit'l Toys factory had burned down in the 1960s and the company had relocated
from Plattsburgh, New York to Canton, Ohio they reappeared as Gibbs Metal
Miniatures. They are easily distinguished when boxed because the Lit'l Toys
boxes are yellow and black and the Gibbs boxes are gold and black. All models
remained the same except for the Lima shovel which used to have an upper body
part of metal which was changed to plastic.